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FRANCE AWAITS ADVICE. Mexico Informally Ank* if Pari*? Will Mediate Between United State? and Hucaia. Paria, Nov. 5.?The French foreign office today wan asked informally by the Mexican foreign office if it was disposed to mediate between the I mted States und Mexico. The French government has taken the attitude that it will do nothing until further advlued as to the policy of the United States towards Mex? ico and nothing which might be un wekvme. SHOWN GOOD FEELING. Another Indicator of Europe's Satis faction. Washington. Nov. 6.?State depart? ment officials take the position that the action of the French foreign office in refraining from Indicating whether It was disposed to mediate between Mexico and the United States is an? other Indljatlon of France's inten? tion to defer to the polloy of tho l mted State* on the Mexican situa? tion. Secretary Bryan said of the Paris dispatch: "In the absence of official advices rom the French foreign office I am unwilling to make any comment." France waa among the first of the European governments to accede to the request of the United States to defer action In the Mexican situation until the Washington government had formulated and announced Its policy. MORE LEGAL TENDER. Mexico City, Nov. i.?President Huerta by decree today made silver 60 cent pieces legal tender, ae well as the bank notes of the Bank of Lon? don and the National bank. Branches of theae tanks are also authorised to put out their notes as legal tender. It Is specif! ?d that while a metal re? serve will be retained by the banks, the notee shall not be redeemed In specie for one year. The decree set fcrth that this was rendered necessary because of the high rate of exchange and the result? ant tendency of the public to melt down silver pesos which weigh more than twice the amount of the CO cent piece. Rebels on The Move. Vera Cms. Nov. 6.?Reports reach? ed here tonight that the revolutionists nr* seriously threatening Chihuahua that th. k on Monterey has t?e*n renewed in forte. SMALLER FARMS MEEDE) Tlio Opportunity That Tho Soutii Of? fers Agricultural Settlers. Washington, Nov. 5.?President Finley, of the Southern Railway Company, speaking today of the op? portunities for farm settlers in the Southeastern States, said; "Most of the immigration Into the United .States having been through the North Atlantic ports, and the general movement of population having been from the East to the West, it has resulted that the South east, with its unexcelled advantages of soil and climate, has been passed by ?n a measure and has a relatively less dense agricultural population than other sections of the country where natural advantages have not been so favorable. As a result of this much of the land is held in large tracts and tho supply of farm labor has not been sufficient to enable the owners to cul? tivate their holdings to the best ad? vantage. The present tendency to? ward more intensive cultivation, which is resulting in increased production and a higher level of prosperity among the farmers of the Southeast, is encouraging the division of these large plantations into relatively small farms. It Is unquestionably to the advantage of the owner of one of these large places to sell part of It In this way, retaining as much as he can farm most efficiently with his available labor. This is a movement that means much for the Southeast. It will benefit those now living there f.nd afford opportunities for g vast number of farm settlers from other lo? calities and it will result In a con? stantly Increasing volume of agricul? tural production In the section." ?EE NEW HOPE BORN. London Papers Congratulate the United States. London, Nov. 6.?The London morn? ing papers congratulated the Ameri? can people on the defeat of Tam? many, which they consider gives hope of a new birth of Democracy In America and a higher standard of civic responsibility. They think also that it is proof of renewed confidence in President Wilson's administration. The Oraphic regards the result of the election as a manifestation of the nation's approval of President Wil? son's spirited Mexican policy, which Huerta would do well to take to heart GREEK VALOR SHOWN In A'errilhe Struggle With the Bul? garia u Military Forces. The first systematic account of the campaign of July, 1913. in which the Greeks fought their way in less than a month from Saloniki to the top of the mountain divide shutting in Sofia, reveals facts that make one feel the original surprise of their immense suc? cess all over again, says the New York Evening Sun. There are points in the more collected telling of the Greek ex? ploits which seem in some ways more remarkable even than the brilliant ar? ray of results which the news dis? patches of July recorded for the Hel? lenic arms. The brevity of this great military exploit was one of its most striking features from the start. But now that we are informed of the formidable na? ture of the Bulgarian resistance, the Greek's pace in covering the contested territory appears more startling than before. The distance covered was about 80 miles in an air line?almost exactly the distance frcm Washington to Richmond, which took the Union army four years to travel. Over \n infinitely harder country of mountain defiles and swamps, with few practi? cable roads and no ne.vigable rlverw, the gain was made in four weeks by 120,000 Greeks, opposed by no less than 160,000 Bulgarians, veterans and supposedly therefore the best fighters in the Balkans. The numbers engaged are testified to byAlbert H. Trapmann, an accredit? ed correspondent with the Greek army, writing in the Nineteenth Cen? tury Magazine. While admittedly a hearty sympathizer with the Greeks, this writer presents such statements aa make it impossible to doubt the invincible qualities displayed by the Greeks In the field. One of the salient facts about the Trapmann account is that it reports not a single lost battle for the victors. Though the Greeks fought their op? ponents wherever and whenever they found them, and though they on cer? tain occasions were almost annihilated by superior numbers they never failed to win a single field, so far as the writer informs us. Even at Djumaia, the last serious battle preceding the armistice, where the Greek Sixth Di? vision wao cut down to a remnant of 2,000 effectives, the Bulgarians were driven and left 10,000 dead on the field. Numbers seem to have meant noth? ing to the Greeks. They were equally independent of their artillery supports. They freely sacrificed lives by the [ thousands, notably before Guevgheli i and Kilkis, where they charged across artillery-swept spaces without waiting for thtir own guns to silence the care? fully posted pieces defending the ground. The Greek artillery itself in? stead of going through the prelimin? ary of silencing the opposing fire rushed forward close to the infantry and poured in its shot at the closest possible range. In all matters of tactics the Greek army has, as is well known, been the pupil for several years past of a French military mission, headed by Gen. Eydoux. It is a fair assumption therefore that both intantry and artil? lery when they adopted these novel tactics were playing true to their training form r Uher than improvising. If this be the case the French have I apparently originated a new tactical system of attack by the combined in? fantry and artillery arms, peculiarly adapted to the contemporary French i "snapshot" artillery method and the j new French field piece, all of which were in use in the Greek army. Mr. Trapmann recognizes that the stupendous success of the Greeks?the conquest of 6,000 square miles of rug? ged territory, with altitudes running clear up to 7,000 feet, from a veteran and superior force, with the infliction of perhaps 30,000 casualties, the cap? ture of 12,000 prisoners and 120 guns, all in fohr weeks?was due to the hap? py coincidence of an aggressive train? ing and an aggressive spirit.. It has ? long been known that the French mil j itary system is peculiarly designed for j spirited and aggressive work, and that I it requires eager troops to make it go , ?men filled with the ardor that im? j parts an extraordinary energy quite ' exceeding men's everyday powers. ; Greek instinctive feeling guessed i which military system wan most suited j to the national temperament, or else i Greek intelligence attained the con I i elusion. French methods are abun | dantly proved the most successful with the Greek soldier. But there was I , in the late campaign an inspiration that raised the martial spirit so long dormant in the Greek to a peculiar height and made the aggressive meth? od all the more deadly. "I have seen a non-commissioned [ officer," writes Mr. Trapmann, "with I a great fragment of common shell , through his lungs, run forward for several hundred yards, vomiting blood, : but still encouraging his men." Again, ! speaking of the first day's advance: j "The Greek troops were in far too ' high a BtPte of spiritual excitation to j require food, even if food had been i able to keep pace with their lightning I advance." And he tells what it was in his opinion that hardened the gentle, m Id and far from truculent Greeks of ordinary lifo Into men of unbounded will power, ready for any sacrifice. Bulgarian massacres did it, he In? sists. The righteous anger that sprang up in the heart of the soldiery of | Greece at the news of Seres, Nigrita. Drama, Doxat tempered its metal into! something sterner than can well he ret.lized. The men were keen with the seiise of outrages to he punished, and they were indignant in the knowledge thi.t the Bulgarians had deliberately broken faith with them, trying to ov? erwhelm them without warning, by tre ichery. Whether the necessarily one-sided vie ns of a correspondent can be taken at face value, and whether his esti? mates of the opposing numbers are correct, and whether h3 gives sufficient creiit to the cooperation of the Serv? ian* in the Greek advance matters' comparatively little. At the minimum estimate the Greek campaign, so late to receive proper recognition, affords us tome wonderful modern instances of the power of earnest resolution, combined with skill and system in arms; examples more remarkable and sur dy more authentic than those pur? veyed by Lieut. Wagner. HUMAN RECIPE To s depleted estate, a juggling with Fate In his search for an heiress with > gold, Add clothes quite swell, a title to sell? And behold this count so bold. Easy Markt. Some men haven I any more cau? tion when they happen to get a lit? tle money, than to snow It to the family.?New York Prent. I_iJgggHMga^aaam?1 Geo.H. Hurst, UNDERTAKER AND EM BALMER. Prompt attention to day or night AT ODD J. D. 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